

(Windows only) Using the excellent PuTTY tools.Note: Importing a site's public key is not supported. In the Edit → Settings menu of the FileZilla client, you can under Connection → SFTP, and FileZilla can then use the public key authentication in the site manager with the 'Interactive' Logontype on connection.

The user is prompted for the key file's password if necessary, which may optionally be cached by FileZilla until it is next shut down. If the SFTP Protocol is specified, it is possible to specify the Logon Type as "Key File" and specify the location of the private key file (in PuTTY's.

1.2 Using the SSH key with PuTTY's SSH agent.1 SFTP using SSH-2: Key based authentication.
